Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Study in Shirley's Comedies of London Life
In investigating the facts concerning the comedy entitled The Ball preparatory to an edition of the play, I soon reached the con elusion that the main point upon which any new light could be shed was that of the authorship of the play, although there was always a tentative hope that in the course of general reading some corrob orative account of the so-called ball might be discovered. As the play was founded upon a bit of contemporary social scandal, the question of sources proved negligible; and the dates of compo sitiou and publication are seemingly indisputable. The problem of the text is greatly simplified by the fact that there is only one original edition. To these matters, then, I have only given inci dental treatment in the following monograph; and have endeav ored to exclude all matter that does not in some way contribute to a settlement of the authorship, with the exception of a. Few pages of conjecture as. To the nature of the amusement called the ball?.
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